[dighton]

. . . click . . .

[Cool Guy]

bump!

[Bobibutu]

The 5th and last sign .... always was "Burma Shave" and we all got that one right - yelling it out.

[hole_n_one]

A GUY WHO DRIVES
  A CAR WIDE OPEN
  IS NOT THINKIN'
  HE'S JUST HOPIN'

 

I would think that anybody who's in a car that needs a roof to protect themselves from anything other than the rain or the sun has a much bigger problem at the moment than not having a roof.

[Cold Heat]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

I recall acually anticipating the signs when I rode in the family car, (a Packard) on vacation trips. We had a lot of fun reading them!

[Jemian]

Do not pass
Upon a slope
Unless you use
a periscope
Burma Shave

[yooper]

I've posted posts

Which Fried in Fat

Why hasn't this

Been moved to "Chat"

Burma Shave:)

[Jemian]

He saw the train
And tried to duck it
Kicked first the gas
And then, the bucket
Burma Shave

[AnAmericanMother]

Farewell, o verse
Beside the road
How sad to know
You're out of mode

BURMA-SHAVE

Couple other faves:

Beneath this vale
Of toil and sin
Your head grows bald
But not your chin.

BURMA-SHAVE

(that one's in the Smithsonian.)

Said Juliet
To Romeo
"If you won't shave,
Go home-eo."

BURMA-SHAVE

[Cicero]

Does your husband
Misbehave
Grunt and grumble
Rant and rave
Shoot the brute some
Burma-Shave

-1930 Burma Shave Slogan

[Cicero]

The 50 cent jar
So large
By heck
Even the Scotch
Now shave the neck
Burma-Shave

-Also 1930

[Cicero]

The cannoneers
With hairy ears
On wiry whiskers
Used tin shears
Until they found
Burma-Shave

-1930

[mollynme]

Don't stick your elbow
Out too far
It may go home
In another car
Burma Shave

[Cicero]

He had the ring
He had the flat
But she felt his chin
And that
Was that
Burma-Shave

-1934

[liberalnot]

these were still up when i was a kid in the 1950's.

i guess they disappeared in the 1960's.

[ffusco]

Thanks. This week I've been shaving with a vintage Gilette double sided razor.

[VOA]

Thanks for posting these great verses.
I'm suprised that these weren't posted around the room in my high school driver education class.

Some of the verses make you laugh, and also make you think about driving more safely.

[Oatka]

YEARS ago there was a newspaper article similar to this thread. They printed some that Burma Shave turned down, including

Listen birds
These signs cost money
So roost a while
But don't get funny

and a somewhat futuristic

Free! Free!
A trip to Mars
For 1000
Empty jars

[ErnBatavia]

Thanks for the post! Being 56 and having had parents that were great enough to give us chirrens 1950's and '60s driving trips through the great southwest, I sure do remember.

(Good thing Andrew Dice Clay was not being "published" at the time...)

[dalereed]

"Did you know shaving cream is just fluffed up soap?
Makes a great " in a pinch " spot remover!!!"

Great spot carpet spot remover, use cheap Barbasol, it works the best.

A friend of mine that was with a carpet cleaning machine manufacture laughed when I used it when he was at our house until he read the ingredients and found out that it contained all the things that they put in their expensive commercial product.